projects for identification - their aim is to present the current status of any process or object,

diagnostic projects - including all types of analyses, expert research to determine the causes of problem and assess the current state of system,

predictive projects - relate to future events, involve planning and are often the basis for the preliminary decision about action.

Generic division of projects

Research projects - for development of breakthrough products or methods, experimental. In large organizations, there are special units dealing with these types of projects: laboratories, design offices. This type of projects include also problems related to human resources management and quality management,

Technical projects - are often an extension of the research projects, usually concern the modernization, equipment of industrial automation, computerization of various processes and all kinds of investment projects,

Projects of management systems - can be divided into economic (strategic and directed mainly to the development, they relate to systems involved in production management, personnel, marketing, costs) and the organizational (which mainly relate to the organizational structure of the company, economic cooperation, moreover, included in this group of projects also quality management and information management)

According to the degree of novelty and originality

Research projects - development on new original technical solutions like electric cars,

Structures built using new technologies.

Projects with a low degree of novelty (originality), examples:

Modernization projects of vehicles with conventional drive

Buildings designed using standard technology,

Due to the size

Differentiated due to number of steps: implementation time, the number of contractors and project costs. H.D. Lidke classifies project sizes according to: the count of the project team, effort, and cost of the project: